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.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

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

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

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.