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.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

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.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.