I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.