I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point?

Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.

There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Integrity indicates wholeness or oneness. If we have integrity, we are sincere, truthful, fair, and honest.

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

Im too sensitive and too sincere.