Marriage is a very long process.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.