Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

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