It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.