“Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.”

“There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.”

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

“Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit?”

“Don't go fighting against the Spring.”

“Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.”

“Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterward.”