“affection explains everything”

“It all turns on affection now," said Margaret. "Affection. Don't you see?... And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in your notebook, Mr. Mansbridge. It's a useful formula.”

“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.”

“Science explained people, but could not understand them.”

“The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.”

“...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.”

“All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.”