Tears blur ones faults and permit blaming, with no objection, fate. I was crying because I had just lost the father for whom I had always lived. Keeping him little company didn't matter. Weren't my efforts to better myself done to give him some satisfaction?
The truth is that men don't think: a great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
If you want to inflict a cruel punishment to a young man, oblige him to keep a diary every year.
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
Duty is what one expects from others.
Is much more prudent to think bad about everyone as long as naturally you find out that a person is good, dut nowadaysit requires a lot of investigation.
Only a very kind woman is capable of doing something very dumb.
I would like time to forget all I have learned.
I thought I had a heart, but it not right for me. Somehow, it doesn't adapt to modern costumes.