One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.