The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

Her memory's your love. You want no other.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.