Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

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 meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.