That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel