Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.