We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.
There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.
What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.
There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.
The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.
I think I surprise myself.
In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I just finished I want to work on something different. The next book becomes an antidote to what I did before.