I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'

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

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.