“When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.”

“...a woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.”

“Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.”

“Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us.”

“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist”

“Dwarfs can often do the work of giants when they are transformed by the almost magic power of great mental concentration.”

“The stars were withdrawn, small, giving no light, unlike other nights when they seemed to hang large from the sky ready to be reached for and taken into our hands.”