“The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.”

“You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.”

“You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.”

“I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army,
But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.”

“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne

"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip”

“Sometimes you suffer for the things that are important to you.”

“In order to know about the illnesses of society, you have to know what men are suffering from, how they suffer.”

“If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.”

“Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.”

“A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.”