I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.