A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.