Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.