But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

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