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

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

Tools have their own integrity.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.