Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

The end is nothing; the road is all.