moral vanity is the snare of good people.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.