Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

It does the heart good to look at you.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.