If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.