death was the price of life.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.