It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

Use words that soak up life.

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred.