Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.