The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

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

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

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.

It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.