“She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.”

“She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.”

“He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.”

“The real business of life is trying to understand each other.”

“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”

“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.”

“It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.”