A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.

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

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown