The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.