Joy is the best of wine.

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.