Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

Not to love is to cease to live.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

Party politics is now a real farce.