Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.