“From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.”

““Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.””

“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions. ”

““She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with the fragrance of her virtues.””

“Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.”

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”

“The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.”

“"The environment has to be balanced against the economy." This quote portrays environmental concerns as a luxury, views measures to solve environmental problems as incurring a net cost, and considers leaving environmental problems unsolved to be a money-saving device. This one-liner puts the truth exactly backwards. Environmental messes cost us huge sums of money both in the short run and in the long run; cleaning up or preventing those messes saves us huge sums in the long run, and often in the short run as well. In caring for the health of our surroundings, just as of our bodies, it is cheaper and preferable to avoid getting sick than to try to cure illnesses after they have developed.”

“The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss put it, ancient writing’s main function was to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings.”

“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”

“ “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.””

“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”

“Money and goods are certainly the best of references.”

““If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.””

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.”

“God too has his hell: it is his love of man.”

“If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”

“"Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear."”

“Put all your eggs in one basket -- and watch that basket!”

“I'll tell you ... what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter -- as I did!”

“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”

“He looked at her again, now with the vague abject shyness that older men often have with young women, as though asking their indulgence for no longer being young.”

“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”

“Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never will.”

““It’s a little gloomy in Prague, I haven’t received any letters, my heart is a little heavy. Of course it’s impossible that a letter could be here already, but explain that to my heart.””

“Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many almost a vice. These people abstain, to be sure: but the bitch Sensuality leers enviously out of all that they do. This restless beast follows them even into the heights of their virtue and into the depths of their cold spirit.”

“Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.”

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

““To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.””