to teach without zest is a crime.

The world is crammed with delightful things

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

A light here required a shadow there.

I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.