Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

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

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

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

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.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

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