“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."---The Princess of Intuition”

“Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.”

“She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for our age, for her own...”

“He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.”

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”

“One never gets anything worth having by post.”

“Unless I can stretch and touch something hard, I shall be blown down the eternal corridors for ever. What then can I touch? What brick, what stone? and so draw myself across the enormous gulf into my body safely?”