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

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

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!

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.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.