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

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken