"What a blessing it is to love books."
- Elizabeth von Arnim
"These women accept their beatings with a simplicity worthy of all praise, and far from considering themselves insulted, admire the strength and energy of the man who can administer such eloquent rebuk..."
"There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief."
"I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather."
"He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head"
"Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the f..."
"Love is not a thing you can pick up and throw into the gutter and pick up again as the fancy takes you. I am a person, very unfortunately for you, with a quite peculiar dread of thrusting myself or my..."
"Nobody told me about him [my grandfather], and he died when I was six, and yet within the last year or two, that strange Indian summer of remembrance that comes to us in the leisured times when the ch..."
"[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and mi..."
"Many are the friendships that have found an unforseeen and sudden end on a journey, and few are those that survive it."