We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.