I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.