The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!