Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.

I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

We belong to the race that knows Joseph

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.