One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.