She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.