Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.