I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
Circumstances should never alter principles!
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.