The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.