My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.