Our friends must visit us--our real friends, no one else; just the people we really care about, and those won't be many.

If I give up a public career--as of course I shall--there's no need to give up music.

I can go on with it in a better spirit, for pure love of it, without any wish for making money and reputation.

You don't think this a mere dream ?' Harvey thought more than he was disposed to say.

He marvelled at her sudden enthusiasm for an ideal he had not imagined her capable of pursuing.