Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?