Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

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.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.