It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.