... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.