Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.