To be in love is to surpass one's self.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
God and other artists are always a little obscure.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.