Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.