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.

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.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

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.

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.

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