The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

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

The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.