A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.