Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.