A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.