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

belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

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

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

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.