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

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.

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

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!

I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.