England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.