When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
There is no realism without an element of idealism.
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.