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.

Things are always different from what they might be.

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!