Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.