Coincidences, good and bad, contretemps, seals, ciphers, mottoes, omens, anniversaries, names, dreams, are all of a certain importance to her. Her letters are often dated on some marked anniversary of her own, or of her correspondent's calendar. She signalized saints' days, 'All-Souls,' and 'All-Saints,' by poems, which had for her a mystical value.

She wore this circle of friends, when I first knew her, as a necklace of diamonds about her neck. They were so much to each other that Margaret seemed to repre…

She chose the Sistrum for her emblem, and had it carefully drawn with a view to its being engraved on a gem. And I know not how many verses and legends came re…

I remember that she made me laugh more than I liked; for I was, at that time, an eager scholar of ethics, and had tasted the sweets of solitude and stoicism, a…

Incorrect symbolism... is bound to undermine any possibility of our building a structurally human civilization.

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

If you smell what The Rock is cooking!