I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more will he adore you and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out.