She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.