The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden..

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere..

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were ….

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day..

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien..

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me..

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and sh….

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled..

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so….

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the nobles….

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work..

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought..

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome..

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't..

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mount….

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has ….

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capit….

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds..

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline..

Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly..