The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.

Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.