One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.