You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.