1. ”After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.”
2. “But we're so different, you know: she likes being good, and I like being happy.”
3. “Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
4. “If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”
5. “In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.”
6. “Life is either always a tight-rope or a feather bed. Give me the tight-rope.”
7. “Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.”
8. ”There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it."
9. “The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.”
10. "Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually, it loiters; but just when one has come to count on its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild, irrational gallop."
