Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

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

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.