Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.