The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Plato was right, but not quite right.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.