We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

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