Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The moment you're born you're done for.