A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.