It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.

... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

In art economy is always beauty.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.