Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.