When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

To live is to be constantly surprised by the unexpected.

最好的小说是那些在你不知不觉中改变你的作品。