Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.

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