Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

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

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

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

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.