Openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness.
There is something about boys, she said, that makes them think it is unmanly to show any feelings other than scorn and irritation or any enthusiasm for anything. It is a very unattractive trait.
One could not change the past anyway. Why let it blight the present and the future?
It was in idleness that one came face-to-face with the I AM. With simple, elemental Being.
I am in awe, he said. Where do all these ideas come from? I think from a lifetime of only being able to observe and never being able to do, she said. I have twenty years of inaction to make up for.
He was asked, rhetorically, he guessed, if he supposed the irons would heat themselves, a question that was followed by a not particularly complimentary remark about men.
But one never quite reached the point at which one could relax and know that one had made it through to the other side of suffering and could now be simply content, even happy, inside a balanced mix o...
Instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn - that life was really not going to be easy after one was free of t...
Your dog has not lost any time in catching up on his beauty sleep. Just do not utter any word that begins with w, she said, especially with the letters a-l-k attached. You would soon discover how deep...
What if I should drop the ring? Cyril asked on the way to the church. Surely one of the functions of the best man - the principal function, in fact - was the calm the nerves of the bridegroom. Then yo...
There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [...]
La vida podía ser muy deprimente en ocasiones, pero siempre continuaba. No tenía sentido dejarse llevar por la depresión.
There is a l-life lesson here for all of us, is there, M-Mrs. Keeping? he asked her. We should all and always look upward, and all our t-troubles will be at an end? She smiled. If only life were that...