The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Poetry and philosophy are always hostile to each other.

He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him. He preferred to swallow his tears, suppress his anger and bit…

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.