True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.