Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.