“People argue themselves out of their pleasures”

“You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.”

“I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.”

“I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.”

“Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.”

“There are some people who like nothing better than a good, regular quarrel.”

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