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

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

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.

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.