Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

To young people the future is still long.

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.