No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.