When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.