A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

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.

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?

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

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