Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

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

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.