The mind is a fathomless mystery.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

America is pretty split.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.