You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.