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.

We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

All extremes are dangerous.

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.