If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.