old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.