The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.