He fears his own murderous heart so much that he won't let himself think of his whole plan openly

You're so certain that you can hold people to their commitments. No ones ever made them do that before. Can you now?

She understands my heart better than you do, and I can speak her thoughts almost before she speaks them

Odd isn't it, that physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and d…

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't; If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't. But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,…

Nothing irritates us [Fascists] so much as to be taken for pillars of order. Nothing so exasperates us as the people who come to us through fear of Communism. …