And this is something I must accept - even if, like acid on metal, it is slowly corroding me inside.
Childhood is but change made gay and visible.
In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.
Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.
The traveling heart went free With endless streams; that strife was stopped; And down a thousand vales I dropped, I flowed to Italy.
. . . I am dark but fair, Black but fair.
I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.
Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.
Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.