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

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

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