But what are wishes, compared with longings?

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.