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.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.