I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.