Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.