“One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it.”

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.”

“a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.”

“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”

“Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.”