The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.

Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.

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

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.