Silence Alone Is Respectable And Respected. I

Thank God, I Never Was Cheerful. I Come From The Happy Stock Of The Mathers, Who, As You Remember, Passed Sweet Mornings Reflecting On The Goodness Of God And The Damnation Of Infants.

Nothing Is Easier Than To Teach Historical Method, But, When Learned, It Has Little Use.

Women Have, Commonly, A Very Positive Moral Sense; That Which They Will, Is Right; That Which They Reject, Is Wrong; And Their Will, In Most Cases, Ends By Settling The Moral.

The Sensation Of Seeing Extremely Fine Women, With Superb Forms, Perfectly Unconscious Of Undress, And Yet Evidently Aware Of Their Beauty And Dignity, Is Worth A Week's Seasickness To Experience... [to Me] The Effect [of A Siva Dance] Was That Of A Dozen Rembrandts Intensified Into The Most Glowing Beauty Of Life And Motion.

As A Means Of Variation From A Normal Type, Sickness In Childhood Ought To Have A Certain Value Not To Be Classed Under Any Fitness Or Unfitness Of Natural Selection; And Especially Scarlet Fever Affected Boys Seriously, Both Physically And In Character, Though They Might Through Life Puzzle Themselves To Decide Whether It Had Fitted Or Unfitted Them For Success.