Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

People rarely do what they don't want to.

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.