Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

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.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

Very dangerous things, theories.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.