Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

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

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

... 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.