I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

I want to do everything in the world with you.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.