If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.