Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.