I can't love you unless I give you up.

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

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

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.