I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.

all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.