We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.