Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

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

Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.