At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

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.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

Man can learn everything if he will but try.