The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.