Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

Pain, thou art not an evil

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.