A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.