Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!