...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfactio….

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she sho….

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins..

It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life..

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind..

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it..

One is oneself a fine consequence..

The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped sh….

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land..

A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the ….

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription..

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part..

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of..

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism..

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process..

All intimacies are based on differences..

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable..

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts….

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition..

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box..