Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.