Partial Portraits

“She went so far that such a distance seems enough, and in her effort she sacrificed no tenderness, no grace. There is much talk to-day about things being “open to women”; but George Eliot showed that there is nothing that is closed.”

“In whatever she writes I enjoy her intelligence; it has space and air, like a fine landscape.”

“Imaginative writers of the first order always give us an impression that they have a kind of philosophy.”

“The story and the novel, the idea and the form, are the needle and thread, and I never heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the use of the thread without the needle, or the needle without the thread.”