It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious. - E. M. Forster

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted.

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!