While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available.