Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

The fatal futility of Fact.

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.