This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.