An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.