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.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

Without Greek studies there is no education.