It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.