The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.