People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more then they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.

“He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the…”

“Oh, I am in love with life!”

“I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”

“Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. AndI,…”