The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.