I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

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

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.