Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.