Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid