But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds

He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.