All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creatu….

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion..

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes..

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individ….

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether..

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands..

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see..

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go..

I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts….

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession..

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence..

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because th….

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous..

Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose ow….

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity..

The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a pr….

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life..

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May..

Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than e….

I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over de….