From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?