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

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

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

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

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