What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.