It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.