You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

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.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.