Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.

If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.