The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.