Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Keep making the movements of life.
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
London is on the whole the most possible form of life.