I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Making a million friends is not a Miracle. The miracle is to make A Friend who will stand by you when millions are against you....

fierce lovers.and battle warriorsboth comefrom the same place. there is bound to be, some bloodshed.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Tact is good taste in action.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

When you cease doubting, you have stopped moving forward.

Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business