Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy..

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance..

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur..

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose..

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the ….

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars..

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love..

There is no influence like the influence of habit..

Tomorrow is no man's gift..

The real business of life is trying to understand each other..

Every shot that kills ricochets..

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave..

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - ….

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle..

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to h….

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pastu….

The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far….

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea ….

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency..

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to b….

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted..