It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

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

let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.