One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.