Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.
Real life seems to have no plots.
If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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.