Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.