I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.