She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.