In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.