It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

All perfection is melancholy.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.