When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.