What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

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

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Truth is its own defense.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.