Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.

I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world--I wanted to conquer heaven too.