Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!