Great Throughts Treasury

"Life is curious when it is reduced to its essentials."

"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."

"We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours."

"Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. "

"Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living."