"Have you any ghosts at Okehurst, by the way?" I asked. The place seemed as if it required some to complete it." "I ho…"

"Sor Asdrubale, as they call my landlord, is also a notary. He regrets the Pontifical Government, having had a cousin …"

"There is no end to the deceits of the past; we protest that we know it is cozening us, and it continues to cozen us j…"

"Let us rather think gently of things, sad, but sad without ignominy, of friendships stillborn or untimely cut off, hu…"

"Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of…"

"As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocra…"

"There is something about the big, stately house, where the Immortal One had received all the minor Olympians, or thei…"

"Surely the excellence of all poetry — what puts Shelley above Keats, Goethe above Shelley (in his Lyrics), and Englis…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."