Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.