... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

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

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

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

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

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.