How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.