There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

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

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

noise is a pollution.

I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.