There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.