Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.