"London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall”

“The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.”

“All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.”

“An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.”

“In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.”

“. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.”

“Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”

“New York is a sucked orange.”

“What care though rival cities soarAlong the stormy coast,Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,If Boston knew the most!”