“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”

“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”

“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in a summer garden, flitting from flower ...”

“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is not self-contradictory. True selfishness, if o...”

“...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.”