There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.