Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.