Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.