He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Without Greek studies there is no education.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.