“People argue themselves out of their pleasures”

“The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.”

“When you are in love- everything is romantic”

“A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.”

“To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.”

“Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”