Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.