I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

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.

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

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.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.