Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up….

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it..

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more ….

There is no thermometer for wants!.

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long..

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making..

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way..

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone..

Truth is its own defense..

Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger..

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though someti….

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles..

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them..

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else..

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters..

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone..

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!.