It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.