Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

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.

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

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