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

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

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

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

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