A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.