“It is no good wishing for what was not to be.”
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.”
“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”
“What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
“Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”
“If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?”