In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

Life is made up of compromises.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.