We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.