Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.