I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.