"I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for not being lucky. It is an at…"

"It was, I saw, a flat to get out of rather than one to stay in. It was a machine for eating and sleeping in, a suitab…"

"Women have come a long way, of course: we can all be left alone at night now. But sometimes it seems a high price to …"

"The house - a substantial but essentially modest suburban villa - was furnished with voluptuous grandeur in approxima…"

"And yet she had never felt so bereft, as if her presence in other lives were entirely illusory, as if she herself wer…"

"In the street the rain was little more than a fine mist which softened the outlines of the houses and even lent a tou…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"