while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.

... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.

while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.