Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.
People make one happy, not houses.
One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.