I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.