The Girl in the Gatehouse

Words are important to me. I listen to each one, weigh and measure it. If I cannot trust your words, how can I trust you?

The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble.

And therein lies the void between the sexes. Women want long looks and deep discussions, and men want to ride and shoot.” Captain Bryant nodded. “I know I do. Can we lay aside novels for a few hours and go shoot something?

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. – Lord Chesterfield, eighteenth-century statesman

How foolish was the fox. How blind. To not see, not value the friendship, the affection, the trust the brown bird offered him.

nature’s noblest gift – my grey goose-quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men! – Lord Byron

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice