If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.