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.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

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.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

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.