Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

Don't let your 'future success' dim the beauty and light that's in front of you right now.

Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

Giving has no relation or companionship

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

There is a big difference between the lower samadhis and the upper samadhis, like the difference between the Sierras and the Himalayas.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.