“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”
“Like all good reputations... every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
“Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.”
“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
“You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.”
“For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.”
“If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.”