I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.