The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it