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.

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 don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.