I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.