A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

What a lark! What a plunge!

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.