We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

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.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.