Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies. — William Somerset Maugham

It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.

Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

He found himself now in the agreeable situation of being able to do what was best for others and at the same time what was convenient to himself.