The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.