You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

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

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

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