If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.