We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.