Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.
Keep making the movements of life.
...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.
Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.