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Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly... →
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.