Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!