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

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

Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

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.

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