What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

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

I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

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

One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.