That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Because the child bound us together; but the link became a chain.

Growing old-it’s not nice, but it’s interesting.

Now you have fulfilled your function as an unfortunately necessary father and breadwinner, you are not needed any longer and you must go.

Those who won’t accept evil never get anything good.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people’s secrets we want to know – it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

It’s risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

It’s wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven’t the true faith.

Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire – it can’t burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.