Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you
The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
Things good in themselves … perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.
Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.