I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.

'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.