Is it possible to say what one really feels?
We're asleep until we love.
By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.
Children: a torment and nothing more.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.