In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.