A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.

As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.