It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

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.

In art economy is always beauty.

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

Her memory's your love. You want no other.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.