The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.