it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.