Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

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.

Love amazes, but it does not surprise.

When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.

The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.