"What necessity for a sword to slay the lover, when a glance can deprive him of half his life!"

"I looked at the high walls where once-white paint had grayed and then peeled. Barbara had always said the h…"

"I am trying to give a pretty clear signal I have made up my mind. I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair ju…"

"There is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive —likewise there is no such thing as a failed entr…"

"God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be…"

"I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is drea…"

"At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and h…"