Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.