Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.

She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.

music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.