A forest bird never wants a cage.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
The man-at-arms is the only man.
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.