It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.