Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

The great trues are too important to be new.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.