She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had an immense curiosity abo… - Henry James

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason, she was fond of seeing great crowds, and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures — a class of efforts to which she had often gone so far as to forgive much bad painting for the sake of the subject.

And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

Don’t underestimate the value of irony — it is extremely valuable.