I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.