To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.