I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.