One should absorb the color of life.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.