Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

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