I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

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.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

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

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.

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.