Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

Always winter but never Christmas.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.