The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.