What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.