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

Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.