Venice is all sea and sculpture.

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?

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

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

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

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.