She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more will he adore you and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.