I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

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.

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.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

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

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.