Dogs are a habit, I think.

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?