The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.