“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
"“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on."""
"“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.”
“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
"“…how small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.”
"When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it."\
"An arrow sang in the air, like a huge hornet; it struck old Appleyard between the shoulder-blades, and pierced him clean through, and he fell forward on his face among the cabbages. A black arrow, Master Dick, is the seal of our abbey; it showed you who wrote the bill.
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."