Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

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.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

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.

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.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.