The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.