Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.