However British you may be, I am more British still.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!