It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.