To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

There is no running away from a great grief.