There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.