If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

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