"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."

"Bestir, ladies! To your chaise, and see that you contrive to look your best. Soon the eyes of Guichen will be upon yo…"

"You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities — God of God! I have lived on possibilities…"

"They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were t…"

"When we know all of whatever it may be, we can never do anything but forgive, madame. That is the profoundest religio…"

"Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed."

"It was heroic!" "Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius."

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."