Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.