One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

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

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.