We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.
I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
The profoundest distances are never geographical.
Time is not a road - it is a room.
They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.