Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.