Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.