Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
the urgent crowds out the essential.
the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.