Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body's ecstasy.

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind, every injustice a false note to avoid in the harmony of the spheres.

Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.

I don't want to tax my mind to find perfect Iron Man line.~ Aarush Kashyap

i have never been more than a dreamand the dreameris awake

So, yes, I believe in angels, absolutely, I do.

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.