“Can one man's madness be another's real life?”

“Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.”

“I have marked in traveling how lonely houses change their expression as you come near, pass, and leave them. Some frown, others smile. The Bible buildings had life of their own and human diseases; the priests cursed or blessed them as men.”

“Beauty always wins friends.”

“It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.”

“Houses seem to remember,' said he. 'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.”

“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”