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

Le monde est une comédie pour ceux qui réfléchissent et une tragédie pour ceux qui sentent.

"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.

She was certainly very unmodern and inexperienced by the standards of to-day — on the other hand, she was a very long way indeed from the Lily Dales and Eleanor Hardings of Mr. Trollope.