“Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!”

“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”

“Be one on whom nothing is lost.”

“I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.”

“...some sunny empty grass-grown court lost in the heart of the labyrinthine pile.”

“You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.”

“The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.”