I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.