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.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

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