If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.