When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.