The Beginning Of My History Is -

I Must Not Say What I Truly Think, Or You Will Tell Me I Flatter You-but I Can Only Speak What I Feel-and Very Often I Cannot Even Do That When The Feeling Is Very Deep.

Pleasure For Others Is The Only Pleasure Possible To Me. I Assure You I'm Quite Selfish! - I'm Greedy For The Happiness Of Those I Love - And If They Can't Or Won't Be Happy I'm Perfectly Miserable.

Imagination Is The Supreme Endowment Of The Poet And Romanticist. It Is A Kind Of Second Sight, Which Conveys The Owner Of It To Places He Has Never Seen, And Surrounds Him With Strange Circumstances Of Which He Is Merely The Spiritual Eyewitness.

Wealth Acts Merely As A Kind Of Mirror To Show You Human Nature At Its Worst.

One Of The Advantages Or Disadvantages Of The Way In Which We Live In These Modern Days Is That We Are Ceasing To Feel. That Is To Say We Do Not Permit Ourselves To Be Affected By Either Death Or Misfortune, Provided These Natural Calamities Leave Our Own Persons Unscathed.