There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.