It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.