One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.