Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

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

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

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.