Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

The past is not what it was.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.