When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.