To multiply your joy, count your blessings.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.