April 20 + 

Miss ⸻ heard me sigh today and asked what it might mean. “Only the sparks flying upward,” I answered lugubriously. + 

A blackguard is often unconscious of a good deal of his wickedness. Charge him with wickedness and he will deny it quite honestly⁠—honest then, perhaps, for the first time in his life. + 

An Entomologist is a large hairy man with eyebrows like antennae. + 

Chronic constipation has gained for me an unrivalled knowledge of all laxatives, aperients, purgatives and cathartic compounds. At present I arrange two gunpowder plots a week. It’s abominable. Best literature for the latrine: picture puzzles. + 