Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.

If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.