We forgive beauty such a lot, thought Agatha suddenly. If he was a little balding man with thick glasses, I might get a bit tetchy.
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
Education is the best provision for old age.
The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of info...
It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...