Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.