It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.