Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'

It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

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

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.