“Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.”

“I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.”

“It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.”

“The recitation of grievances was strange balm.”

“It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last...”

“The world is quiet here.”

“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”

“She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.”

“I want to be the victim of his errors.”