Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

cleverness is a disease.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.