If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

I can't love you unless I give you up.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.