No one has ever held me so tightly. It's a shock to matter this much. It isn't like arms are around me, it's more like a house, as if he has made a house around me. As he did around Tommy.

If asked how much money one requires in life, the answer should be so much as to maintain the parents lifestyle growing the way it has been as long as they are alive.

I think we all keep irritating situations in our head to long, until we finally realize it’s taking up valuable space.

It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.