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.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.