if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.