I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.