“I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.”

“You have made him live.”

“You cannot believe everything you hear”

“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.”

“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”