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

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

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