When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.