Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.

... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.