Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

Sadness is a state of sin.