There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

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

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

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

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.