Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder, far less affectionate woman than the Diana he had known or had thought he knew - a mythical person, no doubt created by himself. It had of course been evident from her letter, which made no reference to his; but he had not chosen to see the evidence and now it was absolutely forced upon his sight it made his eyes sting and tingle again. And deprived of his myth he felt extraordinarily lonely.