“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.”

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

“Glory is the sunshine of the dead”

“Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its na...”

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was p...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”