Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

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

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

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

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

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.