[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

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.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.