When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.

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.

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.