It is often the case that one learns more about a person from their enemies than from their friends.
It is not the past that matters but the future.
It is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.
It is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
It is a great misfortune for a man to have a wife who loves him. She creates the scenes of jealousy, she makes him look ridiculous, she insists on having all his time and attention. Ah! non, it is not the bed of roses.
It gives one such a noble feeling to suffer for one’s silhouette.
Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone?
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. But a grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Ingratitude is what you meet with first and last in this life.
Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip.
