... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

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

Truth is its own defense.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.