old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.