Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

Soup is cuisines kindest course

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.