I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.