I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.