She was young enough and inexperienced enough to make many demands upon life - that it should be romantic, that it should, in the issues that it pres… - Hugh Walpole

El amor… no puede encontrarse buscándolo o deseándolo apasionadamente. Es una especie de accidente divino.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things as well.

"Tisn't life that matters, but the Courage yer bring to it…." That, of course, at once explained everything. It explained his own father and his home, it explained poor Mrs. Prothero and her two sons who were drowned, it explained Stephen's cousin who was never free from the most painful rheumatics, and it explained Stephen himself who was never afraid of any one or anything. Peter stared at Frosted Moses, whose white beard was shining in the fire-place and his boots were like large black boats; but the old man was drawing at his pipe, and had made his remark apparently in connection with nothing at all. Peter was also disappointed to see that the room at large had paid no attention to the declaration. Courage. That was what they were all there for, and soon, later in the evening, he would take his beating like a man, and would not cry out as he had done the last time.