One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.