I Am Sometimes Bored By

What Is So Nice & So Unexpected About Life Is The Way It Improves As It Goes Along. I Think You Should Impress This Fact On Your Children Because I Think Young People Have An Awful Feeling That Life Is Slipping Past Them & They Must Do Something - Catch Something - They Don't Quite Know What, Whereas They've Only Got To Wait & It All Comes.

Paris In The Early Morning Has A Cheerful, Bustling Aspect, A Promise Of Delicious Things To Come, A Positive Smell Of Coffee And Croissants, Quite Peculiar To Itself. The People Welcome A New Day As If They Were Certain Of Liking It, The Shopkeepers Pull Up Their Blinds Serene In The Expectation Of Good Trade, The Workers Go Happily To Their Work, The People Who Have Sat Up All Night In Night-clubs Go Happily To Their Rest, The Orchestra Of Motor-car Horns, Of Clanking Trams, Of Whistling Policemen Tunes Up For The Daily Symphony, And Everywhere Is Joy.

Life Itself, She Thought, As She Went Upstairs To Dress For Dinner, Was Stranger Than Dreams And Far, Far More Disordered.

An Aristocracy In A Republic Is Like A Chicken Whose Head Has Been Cut Off: It May Run About In A Lively Way, But In Fact It Is Dead.

Sisters Are A Shield Against Life's Cruel Adversity.