The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.