if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

-his indescribable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love.

Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was.

She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones -...

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

Her memory's your love. You want no other.

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more - this idea was as sweet as a vision of a...

A second chance-that's the delusion. There never was to be but one. We work in the dark-we do what we can-we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the...

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

When you have lived as long as I, you will see that every human being has his shell, and that you must take the shell into acount. By the shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There is no...

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see--that's my idea of happiness.

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.