Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

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

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

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.

I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again.