There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.