I am the best there ever was!

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.