“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”

“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”

“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”

“We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.”

“scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill”

“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”