“Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.”

“Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.”

“Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.”

“James and the other eight children of 'Superior Dosset,' of whom there are still five alive, may be said to have represented Victorian England, with its principles of trade and individualism at five per cent, and your money back - if you know what that means. At all events they've turned thirty thousand pounds into a cool million between them in the course of their long lives. (...) Their day is passing, and their type, not altogether for the advantage of the country. They were pedestrian, but they too were sound.”

“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”

“He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!”

“Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.”