I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.