Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

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

Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.

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

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.

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