If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.