And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.