But of works of art little can be said.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.