Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless. - John Ruskin

It is the glistening and softly spoken lie; the amiable fallacy; the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident lie of the politician, the zealous lie of the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend, and the careless lie of each man to himself, that cast that black mystery over humanity, through which we thank any man who pierces, as we would thank one who dug a well in a desert.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.