“It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.”

“if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.”

“So now what?''Well, if you insist on marrying me... But it's an awful risk we're taking!''Darling, that's what life's for - to take risks.”

“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”

“when feeling is the gauge, you can snap your fingers at logic”

“And then he felt the misery of his life.”

“To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born.”