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

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

Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.

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

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

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.

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