And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

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

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.