It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Life is made up of compromises.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.