Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

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

Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.