They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.