I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.