You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

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

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.