Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongu... - Virginia Woolf

"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."