Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.