Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

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

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

The world is crammed with delightful things

But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.