Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.

Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Sleep not with an albatross unless you wish your dreams to fly away.

When you tap into the energy of possibility, there is always something greater than potential can give you.

The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it.

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.