Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

A friend married is a friend lost.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.