“It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.”

“I feel to you as Pippa to her fiancé, only far more nobly, far more deeply, body and soul, no starved medievalism of course, only a – a particular harmony of body and soul that I don’t think women have even guessed. But you know.”

“I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”

“We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.”

“He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew viler as well as more unhappy.”

“They go forth into it with well deveoped bodies,fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts... An undeveloped heart, not a cold one. The difference is important...”

“People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.”