... it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'...

... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety, ...

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers...strangers are always at risk.

Patents need inventors more than inventors need patents

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.

I would rather sail and hit a rock than sit and rot in dry dock.

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.