But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run