"Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractiv…"

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it…"

"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."

"'It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn.' [...] 'You can pul…"

"To start off happy," Harris said. "It must make an awful difference afterwards. Why, it might become a habit, mightn'…"

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage …"

"He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that it is where we really belong."

"Pity smouldered like decay at his heart. He would never rid himself of it. He knew from experience how passion died a…"

"No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness."

"Why [...] do I love this place so much? Is it because here human nature hasn't had time to disguise itself? Nobody he…"