“Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.”

“The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.”

“I can't love you unless I give you up.”

“Superficially so like them all, and so eager to outdo them in detachment and adaptability, ridiculing the prejudices he had shaken off, and the people to whom he belonged, he still kept, under his easy pliancy, the skeleton of old faiths and old fashions. "He talks every language as well as the rest of us," Susy had once said of him, "but at least he talks one language better than the others.”

“Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”

“...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.”

“I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.”