Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.