“I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.”

“There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late”

“The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.”

“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.”

“I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.”

“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.”