You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.