If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.