Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

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

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.

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.