I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.