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

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.