It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

If this was love, love had been overrated.

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?