A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.