Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.