The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Every natural action is graceful.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.