It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.