To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

Kill me, little sister. Kill me and you kill Jace, too.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

How much beer is in German intelligence?

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.