Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined fo….

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind..

You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my ….

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition..

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic..

Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open..

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense..

The fatal futility of Fact..

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever..

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life..

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for..

When you forget to eat, you know you're alive..

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table..

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe..

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling li….

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation..

I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm n….

You are good for nothing unless you are clever..

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar po….

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I we….