Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy$$$ and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.

Oh$$$ how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever?

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.

In the South of Spain$$$ one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.

We're a complacent society$$$ hard to get riled up in the first place$$$ and then when we do$$$ it's misdirected.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.