When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a shoddy, false ideal.
What did it all mean? He thought of his own life, the high hopes with which he had entered upon it, the limitations which his body forced upon him, his friendlessness, and the lack of affection which...
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he'...
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body. You
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know eithe...
In love one should exercise economy of intercourse. None of us can love for ever. Love will be stronger and will last longer if there are impediments of its gratification. If a lover is prevented from...
I suppose you're going to say that I'm not a good mother.'
I repeat here what you will find in my first chapter, that the only thing that signifies to you in a book is what it means to you, and if your opinion is at variance with that of everyone else in the...
I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when...
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
I could see that Isabel listened to him with growing exasperation. Larry had no notion that he was driving a dagger in her heart and with his every detached word twisting it in the wound. But when she...
His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless ...
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men...
Books can’t matter much if their authors themselves don’t think they matter.