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

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

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.

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

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.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

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.