Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.