The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.

Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

Autumn is no time to lie alone