[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Things are always different from what they might be.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.