Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.