Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
An old novel has a history of its own.
The God of the Bible takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself
I come from a poor family.
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.