I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.