Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Very few of us are what we seem.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

... nothing is so boring as devotion.