Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Only excellence counts; only achievement endures.