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

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.