Venice is all sea and sculpture.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

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.

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

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?