“Life is shockingly short to trouble about certain things.”

“Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.”

“It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard”

“Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.”

“And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.”

“Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things”

“I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting”