War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.