Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.