An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

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

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.