(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Finding love on your doorstep will make you open up your heart to the world.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.

She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

As hard as I've tried, I don't know how not to be adorable.

Beauty that comes naturally, is the most natural beauty of all.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.