“if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without”

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading a newspaper or chatting with the girls she worked with all day. And maybe she always read like that--with an air of having surrendered totally to a spell.”

“His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies.”

“We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.”

“Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?”

“It is significant ..... that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?”

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”