A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

We never remember days, only moments.

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.