Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.