The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!"

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.