In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.
The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
To feel admiration for a man all through one’s married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
In my end is my beginning – that’s what people are always saying. But what does it mean?
The urge to write one’s autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
I’ve got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature’s little throwbacks – that’s how I look at it.
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
Assumptions are dangerous things.
The first time you do a thing is always exciting.
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
In old days the public didn’t really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.
Things never come when they are expected.
Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
Oh, no, I’m not brave. When a thing is certain, there’s nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.
More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you...
It’s a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.
I think, myself, that one’s memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.