“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.”

“She became aware that she had thought the less of him because he had thought the more of her. She had worshipped this other man because he had assumed superiority and had told her that he was big enough to be her master. But now, -- now that it was all too late, -- the veil had fallen from her eyes. She could now see the difference between manliness and 'deportment.”

“Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.”

“The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion”

“The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.”

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”

“Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”