And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.