“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

“He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.”

“He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly”

“All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.”

“But I'm married, and believe me, in getting to know thoroughly one's wife, if one loves her, as some one has said, one gets to know all women better than if one knew thousands of them.”

“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.”