Alice Meynell

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness and of the mystery of change.