... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I h...ave attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something very solemn in the thought of a great spirit like hers entering the spiritual world which she did not believe i...n. If we are right in our faith, what a blessed surprise for her!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that ...sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born.... These are wonderful words. This life, to which neithe...r time nor eternity can bring diminution--this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to ...be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mother...s, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to!... It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »