And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.