You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

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.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.