nobody ever intends to be old.

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.