Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.