There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.