He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.