Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.