Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.