A death is the most terrible of facts.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.