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.

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

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.

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.

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

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.