How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even intolerance, of deaf peop….

Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind befo….

I tried the plan of talking incessantly myself, so as to hide the fact I didn't hear anything they said, the result was nobody paid the slightest att….

But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes ….

... the fact that the idea don't come freshly on us makes it necessary for it to be better in order to be good at all. The first rose must have drive….

love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness..

I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sor….

Now, in this town, you have to putter over a thing, even the slightest, a month. The powers that evolved the cabbage apple-pie in the morning, and ex….