...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

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

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.