She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.