She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.