As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.