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

— Alice Meynell

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

— Alice Meynell

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

— Alice Meynell

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

— Alice Meynell

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

— Alice Meynell

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

— Alice Meynell