“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”

“You know perfectly well that women can and do - or rather did - handle the most complicated and delicate machines when they took the trouble to understand them. What generally happens is that they're too lazy to take the trouble unless they have to.”

“It’s no fun looking down on people if you can’t let them know you’re above them.”

“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”

“I know that Europe’s wonderful, yet something seems to lack;
The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.”

“There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.”

“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”

“All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.”

“One cannot look too closely at and weigh in too golden scales the acts of men hot in their political excitement.”

“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.”