Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.