... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.