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

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

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.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.