There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

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.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.