She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

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