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

Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

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

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!