A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.