All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know. Love remains, but not the old love; its place remains, but it is all wasted away and has lost all strength and substance; recollections are still left, and gratitude; but...

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.