Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.