In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Storms purify the atmosphere.

Discover what you are.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.