An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.