She was by nature a sunny soul

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.