We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.