Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

If you haven't had your life what have you had?