The prayers of all good people are good.

Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.