A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.