The train ran like a struggling fish on an almost taut line; it jerked — Stella Benson

"Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing."

"All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority, ... but without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it."

"Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten."

"The gardener was one of those who are never surprised without being thunderstruck."

"The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them."

"None of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it."