We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.