Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time....

There was no point in wallowing. Magnus refused towallow. Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people, and depressing elephants.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.