This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

Let my country die for me.

A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!