I have heard horrid stories in detail of the famine.

They are getting historical now, and the people can look back at them and tell them quietly.

It is very lucky for us that we are let to get off for the most part with generalities, and the knowledge of details is left to those who suffer them.

I think if it was not so we should all go mad or shoot ourselves.
"The echoes of English politics which come over here are very sickening: even The Spectator exasperates me with its d--d cold- water cure for all enthusiasm.

When I see these beautiful mountain glens, I quite long to build myself a little den in the middle of them, and say good-bye to the world, with all its lies and its selfishness, till other times.