It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

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.

There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.