To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

How remorseless life is!

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

I prefer men to cauliflowers

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.