It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—