We may divide characters into flat and round.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.