There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.

He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.