So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

She was incurably dishonest.