Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.

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.

An Angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the Angel himself contemplates.

For you to know your calling and push aside the veil covering your future, it is necessary to turn to God in prayer and meditate on the Word of God

Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.

He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.

If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

You can be maybe rented but never bought.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?