Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.