Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.