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.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!