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

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

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.

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.