Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.