Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn’t do to drag them into everything, does it?

That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it.  The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them

It’s all very well to say resist temptation, but it’s ever so much easier to resist it if you can’t get the key

...looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them

It’s lovely to be going home and know it’s home.

Oh, but there’s such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it.

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there?

“...isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

The superfluous, a very necessary thing