I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.