Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.