particle quotes

   A pallid and thin young man, A haggard and lank young man, A greenery-yallery,Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man! A Sewell & Cross young man, A Howell & James young man, A push-ing young par-ti-cle 'What's the next ar-ti-cle?' Wa-ter-loo House young man!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
Bunthorne and Grosvenor's duet, Patience, act 2.

Experience isnever limited, and it isnever complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching everyair-borne particle in its tissue.

- Henry James
  'The  Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1888).