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.

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.