The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's

If you have it, Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

The same kind, beaming smile that children could warm their hands at.

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness

It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding; and the elegance of his diction, even when he was swearing, no less than the distinction of his demeanor, showed him one of a different cast from his crew.