Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.