Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.