Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.