Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

happy people have got something to give to the world.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.