Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives