To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.
Rose MacaulayAnother 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.
Rose MacaulayThe poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.
Rose MacaulayOnly one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.
Rose Macaulay