Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin you….

Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exa….

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them ….

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise inten….

To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she w….

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days..

Never say you know the last word about any human heart..

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?.

My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But wh….

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbid….

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it..

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth..

It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, rea….

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have..

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to….

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure..

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions..

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one hap….

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not ….

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time ….

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are..