Vernon Lee

There is too little courtship in the world.

There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other persons eyes and what is more a readiness to be pleased with the others ways a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at ones good luck.

There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.