it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.

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

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

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.