Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.