If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

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

It seemed a good idea at the time.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.