Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.

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

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.

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.

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

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