I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.