... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

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

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

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.

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