All fires burn out at last.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.