Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Believe it and you can be it!

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.