The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. – Alice Meynell
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. – Alice Meynell
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. – Alice Meynell
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind. – Alice Meynell
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act. – Alice Meynell
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. – Alice Meynell
