'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.