So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?