Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

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

History develops, art stands still.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

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.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.