City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?