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.

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.

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

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

Music, the knife without a hilt.

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.