It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

The end of culture is right living

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.