There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.