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.

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

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

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

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.