In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.