To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.