“You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved.”

“Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.”

“The tumalt and shouting dies,The captains and the kings depart.Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,An humble and a contrite heat.Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,Lest we forget, lest we forget.”

“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”

“Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best." Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. "Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot.”

“Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.”