How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.