Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it!

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.