Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

Most prisons have wide gates!

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.

The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.