Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

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

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

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

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.