... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

When I am wicked I am in high spirits.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.