We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
People have never lost what they think they have.
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!
I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.