He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.