I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.