Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.