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

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

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

The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

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