I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.