miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has..

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a ba….

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all..

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and d….

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them..

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly we….

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas..

[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrific….

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him..

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated..

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived..

Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, ….

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead..

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marrie….

Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womanki….

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be….

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely r….

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard,….

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to ….

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge..

Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are ja….