To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imaginatio….

However British you may be, I am more British still..

Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whate….

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim..

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and tas….

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman..

When I am wicked I am in high spirits..

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I m….

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it..

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take..

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things..

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full….

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire..

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anyth….

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions th….

Her memory's your love. You want no other..

Art without life is a poor affair..

My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child….

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on th….