Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.