The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.

Happy people have no history.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.