It's what you do when you grow up, apparently, face up to things you'd rather not and accept the fact that nobody is who you thought they were, maybe not even close.

He's the beating pulse of every cause dear to me.

Joy is immeasurable cheerfulness.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.