Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.