I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.