One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

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.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

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

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.