But I like to see real men.

Let them be as disagreeable as they please, they are more interesting to me than flowers, or trees, or stars, or any other thing under the sun.

Sometimes," she added, walking on, and shaking the dust daintily from her skirts, "when I am not too busy trying to find a new way of doing my hair that will show my little neck to better advantage, or over other work of that kind, sometimes it amuses me intensely to trace out the resemblance between one man and another: to see how Tant Sannie and I, you and Bonaparte, St.Simon on his pillow, and the emperor dining off larks' tongues, are one and the same compound, merely mixed in different proportions.
"What is microscopic in one is largely developed in another; what is a rudimentary in one man is an active organ in another; but all things are in all men, and one soul is the model of all.

We shall find nothing new in human nature after we have once carefully dissected and analyzed the one being we ever shall truly know--ourself.

The Kaffer girl threw some coffee on my arm in bed this morning; I felt displeased, but said nothing.