very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage.

one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

Dogs are a habit, I think.