Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.