The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

It was a little skirmish across a century.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.