Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
Do not scorn little victories.
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.