There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.