You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

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

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

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

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.