As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like your….

In the midst of life, we are in death..

... nothing is so boring as devotion..

She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her….

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend..

Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the pa….

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rathe….

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget..

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does s….

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN..

The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time.….

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself..

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living..

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her..

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence..

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more..

That is why most great love stories are tragedies..

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world..

I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will ….

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate ….

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them..