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 was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

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