Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.