there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

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

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

It is always better to say too little than too much.

Most of the things one worries about never happen.