Seventeen
Consider the attitude of Dissenters of the trading and industrial classes towards the art of literature.... That attitude is at once timid, antagonistic, and resentful. Timid, because print still has for the unlettered a mysterious sanction; antagonistic because Puritanism and the arts have by no means yet settled their quarrel; resentful because the autocratic power of art over the imagination and the intelligence is felt without being understood.
Eighteen
It is said that men are only interested in themselves. The truth is that, as a rule, men are interested in every mortal thing except themselves.
Nineteen
It is less difficult, I should say, to succeed moderately in journalism than to succeed moderately in dressmaking.
Twenty
Music cannot be said. One art cannot be translated into another.
Twenty-one
A deep-seated objection to the intrusion of even the most loved male at certain times is common, I think, to all women. Women are capable of putting love aside, like a rich dress, and donning the peignoir of matter-of-fact dailiness, in a way which is an eternal enigma to men.